Yes, but how can someone keep track of every post a person made quoting a spam/off-topic (deleted), also keeping in mind if there are multiple quoted posts and single one out of all gets deleted for being off-topic/spam.
I cannot imagine this sort of situations happen very often where so many replies are deleted that the thread loses a lot of its context. If you do miss the few times it happened, mods will be on hand to handle it themselves or send a message.
...In Hot-Topics moderators can be responsible, but how can a handful mods will ask the poster(s) to delete multiple posts.
I have never been asked to delete a post, this may be an indication that this situation does not happen often.
- Jay -